Alison Cook-Sather is a professor of education at Bryn Mawr College and director of Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT), the signature program of the Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. In addition, she has served as a consultant at institutions across the United States and around the world as others develop pedagogical partnership programs. Finally, Alison has engaged in extensive research on pedagogical partnership and is founding editor and founding co-editor, respectively, of two journals focused on pedagogical partnership: Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education and International Journal for Students as Partners.

Melanie Bahti is a former student partner in SaLT who graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2016 with a degree in linguistics. In addition to co-authoring an article on partnership with Alison and another former student partner (Cook-Sather, Des-Ogugua, and Bahti 2018), she has presented at conferences and consulted on partnership, and she serves as a reviewer for International Journal for Students as Partners. She recently completed a Master’s degree in higher education at the University of Pennsylvania and now works in the Center for Teaching & Learning at Thomas Jefferson University.

Anita Ntem graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2018 with a degree in psychology. As a student partner in SaLT she worked in partnership with faculty in four different departments. In addition, she has engaged in research as a Fellow of the Teaching and Learning Institute. Anita has presented her research on partnership at conferences (Ntem 2017), co-authored articles on pedagogical partnership (Cook-Sather, Ntem, and Felten in preparation; Ntem and Cook-Sather 2018), served as a facilitator of the International Summer Institute for Students as Partners at McMaster University in Canada, and is co-editor for International Journal for Students as Partners.